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MOSCOW (AP) — Uzbekistan is set to hold a snap presidential election, a vote that follows a constitutional referendum that extended the…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say 22 officers were injured and dozens of people were detained Saturday during unrest at an Eritrean cultural event in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Scottish government has proposed decriminalizing possession of all drugs for personal use to…

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are searching for an inmate described as “very dangerous” who officials say escaped from a jail in northwestern…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has gone to court to challenge a police decision to…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz played for the second straight day at Wimbledon and won again.…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched in South Korea’s capital demanding Japan scrap its…

CAIRO (AP) — A court in the Libyan capital has sentenced three people to harsh prison terms on charges of human trafficking. It’s a first…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A solemn peace march has started through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military says Russian fighter jets have “harassed” American drones over Syria for the…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 500th day of the war Saturday by hailing…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — An updated news report says a shooting at a party in Texas wounded six people, fewer than previously reported. KVIA-TV…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A pair of colorful children’s scooters rest against the yellow tracks of a battle…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says four militants have attacked a police station with grenades in the country’s southeast. The attack…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Mily Trevino-Sauceda was 9 when her mother fell as she worked to move irrigation pipes along rows of potato and…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press MULBERRY, Tenn. (AP) — For decades, the whiskey and bourbon makers of Tennessee and Kentucky have been beloved in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans who lead three key House committees are joining forces to probe the Justice…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council plans to vote Monday on extending aid deliveries from Turkey…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked…

BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says China has sent 13 aircraft and 6 vessels to airspace and waters around Taiwan as of early…

By SAM METZ Associated Press ON THE GREAT SALT LAKE (AP) — A brisk wind caught a Kevlar-fiber sail, sending it snapping as Bob Derby and Randy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel’s United Nations ambassador is calling on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Texas has started rolling out what is set to become a new…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison and two other companies have paid $22 million to settle U.S. government claims that they caused a…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police in the sprawling suburbs northeast of Atlanta say an investigator with a county prosecutor’s office was shot and wounded by…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The union that represents locomotive engineers says a coal train derailment in Virginia is renewing questions about…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s governor announced Friday that he won’t ask the state Supreme Court to block…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a congressman from the suburbs of the nation’s capital, has…

By JOE TOTORAITIS Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie Elly De La Cruz has been a breakout star on the field, and now he’s…

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska mother has pleaded guilty to giving her 17-year-old daughter pills for an illegal abortion last spring and helping…

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C (AP) — A 69-year-old woman killed by an alligator in South Carolina on Tuesday had drowned and experienced blunt force…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is returning to work. Monahan has told the tour he will resume his job on July 17.…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has voiced support to Ukraine’s membership in NATO, saying the war-torn country deserves to join the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top U.N. officials say they will keep pushing for an extension of the deal that allows…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say two men have been arrested in a shooting that killed three people and injured eight…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials say juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is challenging a federal judge’s injunction that blocks portions of a new…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters rescued two men who fell into a manhole during heavy rain in downtown Omaha on Friday, including one who was washed…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations of former President Donald Trump’s retention of classified…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican-controlled Legislature in Iowa will aim to enact a ban on abortion…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s top court has dismissed a case brought by a dozen minors seeking to force the government to take tougher action against…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Federal prosecutors say it appears that a Michigan man strangled a 2-year-old girl after he kidnapped her following…

WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) — The family of a suburban Chicago man who drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to help children struggling in the water says…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A review panel says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred in Washington for…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to force the state to be among a few…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Florida man prosecutors say is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voter registration closes Monday in Ohio for a high-stakes Aug. 8 election on whether to…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer Northwestern has suspended coach Pat Fitzgerald for two weeks without pay following an investigation into alleged…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Andy Murray didn’t know. As he was asked to dissect his loss to Stefanos Tsitsipas…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An electoral official in Guatemala says a court-ordered review of the country’s…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge refused Friday to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 174-year-old…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says it has disciplined five officers for their actions during a 2021 war in…